A Correspondent- The MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s heavily attended political meetings have shaken the ruling Zanu PF.

Chamisa, this week, forcibly held several meetings in his Masvingo home despite Zanu PF’s attempts to block him.

Chamisa and his team survived attacks by ruling party supporters, who barricaded roads to deny his convoy access to a local village.

The police deliberately ignored to arrest the Zanu ruling party supporters, who attacked Chamisa and his aides.

By A Correspondent-Harare’s Cold Comfort, residents were Wednesday left in shock after an unidentified man in the area threw himself in front of a moving train.

Eyewitnesses alleged that the man tried to drag two school children who were close by but failed.

When Pindula News attended the scene, the police had not yet arrived.

An NRZ official who refused to be named in this report as he doesn’t have authority to speak to the press said police from Kuwadzana said the incident did not take place in their area. He added:

We saw him [the victim] when we were about 100 metres away. He was walking very close to the railway and was unfazed when we rang the bell both for him and the vehicles.

Asked why they applied brakes when the man was not on the rails, the official said:

It’s protocol, we should try to avoid accidents. This man was very close to the rails and anything could happen. We were also approaching a junction.

The incident happened around 4 PM a few metres from a road and railway junction near Herentals college in Cold Comfort.

A local cattle herder said he had seen the deceased man in recent days walking along the rail holding a popular local beverage (cascade).

He was very normal. Nothing suggested he had issues.

-Online

By A Correspondent- A 32-year-old member of the Mugodhi Apostolic church Tafadzwa Nyangore, is on a spree of destroying neighbours’ marriages.

The state media reports that the father of four children, who was recently caught pants down with his nephew, and another neighbour’s wife in Zinhanga village under chief Nyashanu, has done it again.

The church elder impregnated his neighbour’s second wife before being found pants down with his nephew and another neighbours’s wife in Zinhanga village under chief Nyashanu. 

He first appeared before chief Nyashanu where he was fined three beasts for impregnating a polygamous Mazururandi Apostolic church senior leader Tambawoga Nyamande Mariridza’s second wife Elina Chiwora, 38. He appeared before a kraal head Zinhanga after he was caught pants down with one Nyasha’ wife and their marriage collapsed.
Chingore’s bicycle is currently withheld by his nephew Thankmore Nyadongo after he caught him pants down with his younger brother Nyasha Nyadongo’s wife Pretty Nyamhunga, 19, leading to the divorce. Nyamhunga packed her belongings and went to her parents’ house in Mutoko before her husband who is based in Mutare came.

Chingore confirmed his clashes with villagers over his adulterous behaviour to H-Metro arguing that the women were after the fruits of his labour. “I regret impregnating Mariridza’s second wife because I ended up paying him one beast from the three charged by chief Nyashanu,” said Chingore.
“The baby from that adulterous affair died but she was the only girl since my wife has four boys only. “Uyu muzukuru akandibatira bhasikoro uyu haasiriye muridzi wemukadzi asi akarwadziwa andiwona pamba apa nekuti iye aipfimbawo mukadzi wemunin’ina wake asi achirambwa.

“These married women admire my wealth I accumulated from my sweat. “Kuno kunenzara misha izere miti yeminzwa saka ukasashandira mhuri vakadzi vanoda panepfuma. “But the issue of the bicycle has become a thorn in my flesh with my wife since it was like a vehicle in helping the family.
“As for my neighbor Nyasha’s marriage, I was not responsible for the collapsing of his marriage as alleged,” said Chingore. Nyadongo told H-Metro that Chingore paid transport costs for Pretty from Nyashanu to Mutoko her home village in order to destroy evidence.

“Chingore has been bedding my wife while I was at work in Mutare,” said Nyadongo.  “When my brother caught them, he fled leaving his bicycle behind and we will not give him until he returns to explain his reason for wrecking my marriage.
“He was quick to foot transport costs for my wife to Mutoko before I arrived. “My in-laws could not stand with me but instead accused me of abusing their daughter vowing not to return her. “I want to follow her in Mutoko but her parents’ actions discouraged me from the visit.

“Chingore’s bicycle will remain in my brother’s hands until he returns to resolve the matter.,” said Nyadongo. Thankmore told H-Metro that he was withholding Chingore’s bicycle as evidence that he caught him bedding his younger brother’s wife.

“I am withholding the bicycle as evidence that I caught Chingore bedding my younger brother’s wife,” said Nyadongo. “I woke up at around 5am and spotted Chingore getting into my brother’s bedroom.  “Aitoratidza kuti akangaachibva kunosvibatsira akapfeka pair of shorts and I rushed there before he locked the door and found him half-n@ked.
“I assaulted him and he fled leaving his bicycle parked in the kitchen and I took it as evidence. “I won’t give him until he lodges a report against me either with the chief or police.  “Besides that he must come with his family so that we resolve the issue amicably since we are related.
“The woman has since packed her belongings and went to Mutoko leaving a three-year-old child under the custody of my ailing mother,” said Thankmore. Chingore’s wife Ronica Gumbahari narrated how her family was affected. “My children have been affected much considering that the bicycle withheld was a means of transport for them to school.

“We no longer have cattle and this bicycle was making it easy to take maize to the grinding meal as well as other matters. “Ndakarwadziwa pandakaziva kuti vamwe amai vatinonamata navo ndivo vakatuma murume wangu kuenda kumba kwaPretty.
“Ndakavaendera ndikavaudza mashoko asiri ezera rangu,” said Gumbahari. One of the villagers had not kind words about Chingore considering that he is one of the Mugodhi Apostolic branch leader.
“Mufana uyu anosiya mudzimai wake akanaka achinotikaramata nechembere obvapo oendera vana vadiki saka avekutotyisa mumusha,” said the villager. “He is spending money meant for his children in wrecking other marriages and to us he is now like a prodigal son. “Arikushumira Mwari nenzira yenyama inowora,” said the villager.
[H-Metro]

By A Correspondent- Prominent Kwekwe businessman Thubelihle Kheshow who stabbed 6 people to death during a murderous rage has spoken out following his arrest.

Kheshow, who is the owner of Kheshow Investments in Redcliff, Kwekwe, blamed evil spirits after he killed 6 people and left 4 other people in hospital fighting for their lives.

According to the 26-year-old businessman, he was possessed by some evil spirits when he went on the murderous rampage.

watch the video below….

By A Correspondent- A 32-year-old member of the Mugodhi Apostolic church Tafadzwa Nyangore, has destroyed neighbours’ marriages.

The father of four children, who was once found pants down with his nephew and another neighbour’s wife in Zinhanga village under chief Nyashanu, has done it again.

The church elder impregnated his neighbour’s second wife before being found pants down with his nephew and another neighbours’s wife in Zinhanga village under chief Nyashanu. 

He first appeared before chief Nyashanu where he was fined three beasts for impregnating a polygamous Mazururandi Apostolic church senior leader Tambawoga Nyamande Mariridza’s second wife Elina Chiwora, 38. He appeared before a kraal head Zinhanga after he was caught pants down with one Nyasha’ wife and their marriage collapsed.
Chingore’s bicycle is currently withheld by his nephew Thankmore Nyadongo after he caught him pants down with his younger brother Nyasha Nyadongo’s wife Pretty Nyamhunga, 19, leading to the divorce. Nyamhunga packed her belongings and went to her parents’ house in Mutoko before her husband who is based in Mutare came.

Chingore confirmed his clashes with villagers over his adulterous behaviour to H-Metro arguing that the women were after the fruits of his labour. “I regret impregnating Mariridza’s second wife because I ended up paying him one beast from the three charged by chief Nyashanu,” said Chingore.
“The baby from that adulterous affair died but she was the only girl since my wife has four boys only. “Uyu muzukuru akandibatira bhasikoro uyu haasiriye muridzi wemukadzi asi akarwadziwa andiwona pamba apa nekuti iye aipfimbawo mukadzi wemunin’ina wake asi achirambwa.

“These married women admire my wealth I accumulated from my sweat. “Kuno kunenzara misha izere miti yeminzwa saka ukasashandira mhuri vakadzi vanoda panepfuma. “But the issue of the bicycle has become a thorn in my flesh with my wife since it was like a vehicle in helping the family.
“As for my neighbor Nyasha’s marriage, I was not responsible for the collapsing of his marriage as alleged,” said Chingore. Nyadongo told H-Metro that Chingore paid transport costs for Pretty from Nyashanu to Mutoko her home village in order to destroy evidence.

“Chingore has been bedding my wife while I was at work in Mutare,” said Nyadongo.  “When my brother caught them, he fled leaving his bicycle behind and we will not give him until he returns to explain his reason for wrecking my marriage.
“He was quick to foot transport costs for my wife to Mutoko before I arrived. “My in-laws could not stand with me but instead accused me of abusing their daughter vowing not to return her. “I want to follow her in Mutoko but her parents’ actions discouraged me from the visit.

“Chingore’s bicycle will remain in my brother’s hands until he returns to resolve the matter.,” said Nyadongo. Thankmore told H-Metro that he was withholding Chingore’s bicycle as evidence that he caught him bedding his younger brother’s wife.

“I am withholding the bicycle as evidence that I caught Chingore bedding my younger brother’s wife,” said Nyadongo. “I woke up at around 5am and spotted Chingore getting into my brother’s bedroom.  “Aitoratidza kuti akangaachibva kunosvibatsira akapfeka pair of shorts and I rushed there before he locked the door and found him half-n@ked.
“I assaulted him and he fled leaving his bicycle parked in the kitchen and I took it as evidence. “I won’t give him until he lodges a report against me either with the chief or police.  “Besides that he must come with his family so that we resolve the issue amicably since we are related.
“The woman has since packed her belongings and went to Mutoko leaving a three-year-old child under the custody of my ailing mother,” said Thankmore. Chingore’s wife Ronica Gumbahari narrated how her family was affected. “My children have been affected much considering that the bicycle withheld was a means of transport for them to school.

“We no longer have cattle and this bicycle was making it easy to take maize to the grinding meal as well as other matters. “Ndakarwadziwa pandakaziva kuti vamwe amai vatinonamata navo ndivo vakatuma murume wangu kuenda kumba kwaPretty.
“Ndakavaendera ndikavaudza mashoko asiri ezera rangu,” said Gumbahari. One of the villagers had not kind words about Chingore considering that he is one of the Mugodhi Apostolic branch leader.
“Mufana uyu anosiya mudzimai wake akanaka achinotikaramata nechembere obvapo oendera vana vadiki saka avekutotyisa mumusha,” said the villager. “He is spending money meant for his children in wrecking other marriages and to us he is now like a prodigal son. “Arikushumira Mwari nenzira yenyama inowora,” said the villager.
[H-Metro]

By A Correspondent-The court will this on Friday rule on whether Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa is fit to stand trial on allegations of fraudulently acquiring an ungraded marriage certificate when her husband was bedridden.

The State and a doctor assigned to examine her gave the greenlight for the trial to start.

The couple had been married for eight years under Zimbabwe’s customary law.

Supreme Court judge Justice George Chiweshe, who is a retired soldier, and former chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi who is now a High Court judge, are witnesses in the matter.

The doctor, Simukai Machawira told the court that he was a vascular specialist and was asked by his clinical director to write a medical report for Mubaiwa. He said he only did a physical examination of Mubaiwa and concluded that she was fit to stand trial.

Mubaiwa’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa asked Machawira if he contacted Mubaiwa’s doctor who is treating her to be apprised of her condition. Machawira said he did not consult her doctor, but was only working on her physical fitness.

Mtetwa then asked Machawira if his observations were a true reflection of Mubaiwa’s condition when he did not check with her doctor or check on her clinical records to which he responded that he was not an expert in checking her mental strength for the trial.

Machawira said he only relied on the information provided by Mubaiwa.

Mtetwa said all the medication Mubaiwa was taking was for pain and relief of trauma.

Machawira admitted in court that the fact that Mubaiwa was taking six different drugs could affect her mental state, but said when he assessed her, she seemed ready to stand trial despite being under medication.

The State, represented by Michael Reza, Tafara Chirambira and Tendai Shonhai, said Mubaiwa did not mention her mental problem when she was being examined.

Mtetwa then interjected saying she did not say Mubaiwa is mentally ill and was a candidate of Ingutsheni Psychiatric Hospital, but her mental strength to concentrate in court after taking medication.

Reza then apologised.

But Mtetwa asked the court to allow Mubaiwa to be examined for mental preparedness for trial. But Reza opposed, saying it was a classic act of afterthought.

Mtetwa said the trial could not resume when Mubaiwa was visibly sick.

Magistrate Lazini Ncube, however, postponed the matter to Friday for ruling. Mtetwa has been accusing Chiwenga of intimidating doctors who prepared Mubaiwa’s medical report. NewsDay

Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa came face to face with the plight of suffering citizens in Masvingo Province.

President Chamisa is in Masvingo this week for stakeholder meetings and consultations.

See statement below:

I’M so energized by the solid support here as I continue this Communities & Citizens Interface, a tour of rural parts of Zimbabwe…

I had meetings in Chivi,Ngundu,Mwenezi,Chingwizi & Rutenga.Zpf tried disrupting but failed.

I saw how the majority of Zimbabweans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Kungwavhangwavha. Life is really hard. Poverty in communities is real.

The message is resoundingly #NgaapindeHakeMukomana. Thank you Zimbabwe! #Godisinit

IS THIS TRUE?

Soccer is failing because people end up saying: Zimbabwe is not for football it's only for blood, man speaks at a forum – video:supplied pic.twitter.com/r3b7Lo0dD3

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) October 13, 2021

By A Correspondent- Arnold Kamudyariwa (DJ Fantan), Tafadzwa Kadzimwe (DJ Levelz), and Damma, born Simbarashe Chanachimwe, had their appeal against their sentence upheld by High Court Judges Justice Pirirayi Kwenda and Benjamin Chikowero.

The judges reduced the sentence to 3 months with an option to pay a ZWL$2 000 fine.

Fantan Levels, and Damma of Chillspot Records, were arrested in January for organising an illegal New Year’s eve music gig held in Mbare, Harare.

Harare provincial magistrate Vongai Guwuriro jailed the trio for an effective six months for violating COVID-19 national lockdown regulations.
Guwuriro had initially jailed the trio to 12 months behind bars but set aside six months of the jail term on condition they do not commit a similar offence within that period.
In passing sentence, Guwuriro said fining or committing the trio to perform unpaid work would trivialise the offence.
The popular entertainment promoters were, however, freed in late January on ZWL$10 000 bail after a High Court judge acceded to their bail appeal.

The trio’s lawyer, Tafadzwa Hungwe, said at the time, “our clients have been granted $10,000 bail each.” Added Hungwe:
Justice Foroma ruled that they have prospects of success on appeal on grounds that they have proved that they are remorseful for what they did.
The three managed to convince the court that they are ready to reform after they admitted to doing wrong.

As part of their bail conditions, the music promoters were ordered to report to the police fortnightly and reside at their given addresses until the matter is finalised. – Agencies

By A Correspondent- The High Court has reserved judgment on an application by Chilonga villagers who were challenging provisions of the Communal Lands Act, arguing that it did not respect African traditional values with regards to land ownership.

The application was heard by Harare High Court judges, Justices Joseph Mafusire, Never Katiyo and Chipo Mungwari.

In a statement, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), said the villagers had approached the High Court seeking an order to set aside sections 4 and 6(1)(b) of the Communal Lands Act.

In March, the villagers challenged government’s plans to evict more than 12 000 of them from Chilonga to pave way for a commercial irrigation venture. Initial reports were that the villagers were being evicted to pave way for a lucerne project by Dendairy.
“The Chilonga villagers want the High Court to set aside sections 4 and 6(1)(b) of the Communal Lands Act arguing that the two sections are unconstitutional and offend some provisions of the Constitution,” ZLHR said.

“The Chilonga villagers who are farmers grow sorghum, maize and millet and they argue that the Communal Lands Act denies them the right to self-determination of Africans in Zimbabwe and has no room in post-independent Zimbabwe.”
The lawyers also said Chilonga villagers argued that the Communal Lands Act was a racist and colonial creature, which regarded Africans as uncivilised.
“The villagers queried why an African can own a house in Harare’s plush suburb of Borrowdale, but he cannot own his ancestral home in Chiredzi, Mwenezi, Dotito, Chendambuya, Nyaki or Tsholotsho.”

-NewsDay

By A Correspondent-The late Vice President Joshua Nkomo’s Zapu is headed for a split following the movement’s provincial congresses.

Zapu is currently holding its provincial congresses ahead of the party’s elective congress, which will be held from the October 29 and 30 at the Bulawayo Amphitheatre.

Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son of the party’s late founding leader Joshua Nkomo, is the leading contender for the party’s presidency after having been controversially nominated by nine provinces.

On Saturday, Bulawayo province nominated Nkomo to contest the party’s top post amid allegations of vote buying and manipulation of the party’s constitution.

According to party sources, disgruntled delegates from Bulawayo South boycotted the Bulawayo congress citing irregularities in the manner the elections were being conducted.

“The elections where Nkomo is purported to have been nominated in Bulawayo was a circus. 

How can we have known Zanu PF supporters in their full regalia voting at a Zapu congress. The culture of voting manipulation and vote buying is alien to Zapu,” one of the party’s top post contenders who refused to be named said.

The source said the congress preparations were in shambolic and it will be almost impossible to meet the congress deadline.

New Zimbabwe.com was also told that the party’s Harare provincial executive Sunday boycotted the provincial congress due to similar reasons.

-NewZimbabwe.com

By A Correspondent-An unidentified man has thrown himself in front of a moving train near Cold Comfort in Harare.

Eyewitnesses alleged that the man tried to drag two school children who were close-by but failed.

When Pindula News attended the scene, the police had not yet arrived.

An NRZ official who refused to be named in this report as he doesn’t have authority to speak to the press said police from Kuwadzana said the incident did not take place in their area. He added:

We saw him [the victim] when we were about 100 metres away. He was walking very close to the railway and was unfazed when we rang the bell both for him and the vehicles.

Asked why they applied brakes when the man was not on the rails, the official said:

It’s protocol, we should try to avoid accidents. This man was very close to the rails and anything could happen. We were also approaching a junction.

The incident happened around 4 PM a few metres from a road and railway junction near Herentals college in Cold Comfort.

A local cattle herder said he had seen the deceased man in recent days walking along the rail holding a popular local beverage (cascade).

He was very normal. Nothing suggested he had issues.

-Online

A Correspondent- The Monday Masvingo attacks on the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, by Zanu PF supporters have exposed the Emmerson Mnangagwa led political party’s violent behaviour.

Chamisa and his team were attacked again yesterday by ruling party supporters, who barricaded roads to deny his convoy access to a local village.

It is alleged that the ruling party supporters, who were chanting slogans, were accompanied by the police.

Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Zanu PF acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa said Chamisa, who is currently undertaking community interface meetings around the country as he mobilises support ahead of the 2023 elections, was entirely to blame.

“What I heard happened in Masvingo was that the opposition leader wanted to force himself on an audience which did not want to listen to him,” Chinamasa said.

“He had no right to force people to listen to him. He had a right to address people but only those who were willing to be addressed by him.”

A group of about 200 Zanu PF supporters brandishing placards denouncing Chamisa for the sanctions imposed by the West on the country pounced on the opposition leaders, damaging cars and injuring five opposition supporters.

Zanu PF initially claimed the protest was stage-managed.

But Chinamasa yesterday said the villagers were angered because a “madman” wanted to address them.

“In this case, my information is that the villagers did not want to be addressed by him for obvious reasons. If you listen to a madman, you become part of his cast, you will be portrayed as part of his cast, he will then go ahead and say, I have lots of support, which he does not have.

“So our Zanu PF people have a right to say, we don’t want you to address us, we don’t want to, it’s my right, but if you force me to listen to you, I have reason to be angry.”

Chinamasa did not, however, explain why the police teargassed Chamisa at a private residence, how the villagers acquiredZanu PF violence: politburo descends on Manicaland

A Correspondent- Zanu PF has laboured to exonerate its members from Masvingo’s Monday attacks on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.

Chamisa and his team were attacked again yesterday by ruling party supporters, who barricaded roads to deny his convoy access to a local village.
It is alleged that the ruling party supporters, who were chanting slogans, were accompanied by the police.

Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Zanu PF acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa said Chamisa, who is currently undertaking community interface meetings around the country as he mobilises support ahead of the 2023 elections, was entirely to blame.

“What I heard happened in Masvingo was that the opposition leader wanted to force himself on an audience which did not want to listen to him,” Chinamasa said.

“He had no right to force people to listen to him. He had a right to address people but only those who were willing to be addressed by him.”

A group of about 200 Zanu PF supporters brandishing placards denouncing Chamisa for the sanctions imposed by the West on the country pounced on the opposition leaders, damaging cars and injuring five opposition supporters.

Zanu PF initially claimed the protest was stage-managed.

But Chinamasa yesterday said the villagers were angered because a “madman” wanted to address them.

“In this case, my information is that the villagers did not want to be addressed by him for obvious reasons. If you listen to a madman, you become part of his cast, you will be portrayed as part of his cast, he will then go ahead and say, I have lots of support, which he does not have.

“So our Zanu PF people have a right to say, we don’t want you to address us, we don’t want to, it’s my right, but if you force me to listen to you, I have reason to be angry.”

By A Correspondent-Zanu PF has sent a delegation to Mutare to inquire into the violence that erupted at the party’s Manicaland provincial political meeting last Sunday.

The violence erupted after angry party members had demonstrated against provincial chairperson Mike Madiro for imposing candidates.

The fact-finding team also includes the secretary for security Lovemore Matuke and youth leader Tendai Chirau.

The team held a closed-door meeting with the warring factions at Marymount Teachers’ College in Mutare.

Zanu PF Manicaland spokesperson Oliver Mandipaka refused to comment on the outcome of the meeting, accusing NewsDay of poking its nose into the ruling party’s internal affairs.

“This has nothing to do with you, I think you are going too far with our internal processes,” Mandipaka said.

The meeting was also attended by Mutare district coordinating committee secretary for youth affairs Danmore Mambondiyani.

-NewsDay

By A Correspondent- The government has expressed concern over the increase in prices of goods and services which is eroding civil servants’ salaries due to the use of black-market forex rates by businesses.

Some businesses are using rates as high as $200 for US$1, while the official rate is at $90.07 for US$1, which only a few are buying from a selected bureau de changes.

In an interview with State media on Tuesday, Public Service and Social Welfare Minister Paul Mavima said the Government is very sincere about the welfare of its employees.

He said the government has increased civil servants’ salaries twice amounting to a combined 75 per cent increment, but the gains have been eroded by the ever-increasing prices of basic commodities.

Said Mavima:

As soon as the Government increases their salaries, the salaries are eroded by increasing prices. There is therefore a need for a concerted effort at stabilising prices.

He implored civil servants to be patient with the Government, saying the National Joint Negotiation Council (NJNC) is due to meet soon for the next round of negotiations on salaries.

Apex Council deputy secretary-general Gibson Mushangu urged the government to urgently cushion civil servants salaries, saying they are now earning “peanuts” due to unbridled price increases. He said:

We have asked the Government to convene a meeting to map a way forward. We need to address the salary challenges we are facing as civil servants.

We need our salaries cushioned. We are in dire need of Government’s timeous intervention and that is why we are calling for a meeting because things are getting out of hand.

Yes from April to July civil servants got a salary increase of 25 per cent and in July they got a 50 per cent salary increase, but that is now peanuts because of the surge in prices of goods and commodities.

-statemedia

Dear Editor

Good day to you all

I would like to warn each and every Zimbabwean citizen. My elder brother’s son who was coming from Ireland in the company of his wife on Sunday was intercepted at the airport just after they arrived by someone who escorted them until they had cleared themselves and left the airport.

This person gave them forms on the pretext that they wanted to conduct contact tracing of covid 19 hence they had to reveal their address.

On Monday evening, thieves broke into this couple’s home in Norton and stole mobile phones, money and clothes. These thieves knew they had recently arrived from the diaspora.

Let us be very careful. These thieves are now using every trick in the book to follow their victims.

The robbers also took a car registration number AFI 6461 to carry their loot.

My children are now nursing wounds sustained during the attack.

I am warning other Zimbabweans to be wary of revealing their addresses especially to strangers or thieves posing as bogus health authorities at the airport.

Concerned Zimbabwean

Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa came face to face with the plight of suffering citizens in Masvingo Province.

President Chamisa is in Masvingo this week for stakeholder meetings and consultations.

See statement below:

I’M so energized by the solid support here as I continue this Communities & Citizens Interface, a tour of rural parts of Zimbabwe…

I had meetings in Chivi,Ngundu,Mwenezi,Chingwizi & Rutenga.Zpf tried disrupting but failed.

I saw how the majority of Zimbabweans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Kungwavhangwavha. Life is really hard. Poverty in communities is real.

The message is resoundingly #NgaapindeHakeMukomana. Thank you Zimbabwe! #Godisinit

Dear Editor

Good day to you all

I would like to warn each and every Zimbabwean citizen. My elder brother’s son who was coming from Ireland in the company of his wife on Sunday was intercepted at the airport just after they arrived by someone who escorted them until they had cleared themselves and left the airport.

This person gave them forms on the pretext that they wanted to conduct contact tracing of covid 19 hence they had to reveal their address.

On Monday evening, thieves broke into this couple’s home in Norton and stole mobile phones, money and clothes. These thieves knew they had recently arrived from the diaspora.

Let us be very careful. These thieves are now using every trick in the book to follow their victims.

The robbers also took a car registration number AFI 6461 to carry their loot.

My children are now nursing wounds sustained during the attack.

I am warning other Zimbabweans to be wary of revealing their addresses especially to strangers or thieves posing as bogus health authorities at the airport.

Concerned Zimbabwean

By A Correspondent- The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has called on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to ensure that the Dutch foreign currency auction rules are observed, which is not the case at the moment.

In a report published on Monday titled “The Currency Situation and Recommendations for Change”, CZI said the high demand for forex at the forex auction is a result of the inefficiencies or non-adherence to strict Dutch auction rules. It noted a number of red flags which are:

These are showing up in the delays in settlement, price increases and increasing inflation, which would unsettle the stability that had characterised the year 2021.

The predictability of the auction rate has seen participants becoming more cunning, knowing full well that if they bid at the previous minimum acceptable rate, they will still access foreign currency.

The risk of losing out, which was the basis for getting the correct price from the auction, has now been minimised by the RBZ preference to auction foreign currency that they do not have.

The extended backlog discourages players that have a genuine need for foreign currency and cannot afford to wait for six weeks while those that are importing simply due to the existence of cheap foreign currency do not mind waiting to get their bids honoured, even though they have resources tied down during the waiting period.

Thus, the foreign currency auction is now attracting foreign currency demand that would normally not have been there, simply due to the perception that the foreign currency is cheap.

It is now profitable to import products rather than producing and sourcing locally due to the exchange rate distortions that have emerged from the auction market.

The same phenomenon is being observed at the bureaus de change with artificial demand for foreign currency both for local use (the US$50s) as well as for travel allowances (US$500) now being the norm.

Tinashe Sambiri| MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa came face to face with the plight of suffering citizens in Masvingo Province.

President Chamisa is in Masvingo this week for stakeholder meetings and consultations.

See statement below:

I’M so energized by the solid support here as I continue this Communities & Citizens Interface, a tour of rural parts of Zimbabwe…

I had meetings in Chivi,Ngundu,Mwenezi,Chingwizi & Rutenga.Zpf tried disrupting but failed.

I saw how the majority of Zimbabweans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Kungwavhangwavha. Life is really hard. Poverty in communities is real.

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By A Correspondent- A 17 year old boy from Beatrice is on the run after he allegedly stabbed his brother-in-law to death with a spear for divorcing his sister.

Police sources told The Mirror that the juvenile fled after stabbing Steven Mandizvidza (35) of New stands Glen Norah. Mandizvidza had an altercation with his ex-wife who is the juvenile’s sister.

Mash East assistant Police spokesperson, Misheck Denhere confirmed the incident to The Mirror.

On September 29, 2021, Mandizvidza together with his friend visited his former wife to see his daughter. Upon arrival, the two had a heated argument over their divorce process and this degenerated into a fight.

The boy tried in vain to refrain Mandizvidza from beating his sister. But deceased charged at the young brother and a fistfight ensued. The boy then ran into the house and came back with a spear which he used to stab his brother-in-law in the neck.

Mandizvidza who bled profusely was taken to Marondera General Hospital by a neighbour where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. The matter was reported at ZRP Beatrice.

– Mirror

By A Correspondent | The MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa must invite ZANU PF hardliners into a power sharing convergence, otherwise his movement will fall flat, UK based lawyer, Lloyd Msipa has said.

Msipa, who is a founding member of former minister Nkosana Moyo’s APPA party, said Chamisa must create a model that has a power sharing with former ZANU PF cadres.

As Zimbabwe readies for the 2023 polls, Msipa’s comments come after other G40 members called for the same. Said Msipa, ” in the absence of a big tent approach that incorporates key former ZANU PF cadres ahead of 2023, the Citizen Convergence model will fall flat on its face.

“Penetrating rural electorate requires unity of purpose across political divide.

“It shouldn’t be so, but that is our reality!”

https://twitter.com/Agrippa98650321/status/1448011970049892364?t=sx4l2VMsBkKtcOooGUfm7g&s=19

https://twitter.com/Agrippa98650321/status/1448011970049892364?t=sx4l2VMsBkKtcOooGUfm7g&s=19

By A Correspondent- Zanu Pf has given thumbs up to the violence against opposition MDC Alliance by its own party stalwarts in Masvingo adding that the people who stoned President Nelson Chamisa’s convoy and injured several MDC Alliance stalwarts did so within the confines of the law.

Said Zanu Pf in a tweet:

Well done Masvingo villagers

The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law. Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos.

Well done Masvingo villagers‼️

The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law.

Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions.

Villagers were not violent.

Chamisa is not immune from demos. pic.twitter.com/X187HNYSur

— ?? ZANU PF PATRIOTS ?? (@zanupf_patriots) October 12, 2021

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has published the timetable for the 2021 Grade 7 examinations.

The exams will start on 29 November, with students sitting for the English Paper 1 examination.

The final examination will be written on Friday 10 December 2021 when students sit for Social Science Paper 2.

Below is the Grade 7 timetable.

EXAMINATION DATE	MORNING SESSION	SUBJECT/PAPER	AFTERNOON SESSION	SUBJECT/PAPER
MONDAY 29 NOVEMBER	9.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. (1hr 30mins)	7010/1 English 1
TUESDAY 30 NOVEMBER	9.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. (2hrs)	7020/1 Mathematics 1
WEDNESDAY 01 DECEMBER	9.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. (1hr 30mins)	7040/1 Shona 1 7060/1 Ndebele 1 7080/1 Nambya 1 7100/1 Xichangana 1 7070/1 Tonga 1 7120/1 Sesotho 1 7110/1 Kalanga 1 7090/1 Tshivenda 1 A	2.00pm-4.00pm (2hrs)	7130/1 Physical Education & Arts 1
THURSDAY 2 DECEMBER	9.00 a.m. 10.45 a.m. (1hr 45mins)	7050/1 Social Science 1
FRIDAY 03 DECEMBER	9.00 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. (1hr 45 mins)	7030/1 Agriculture Science & Technology 1
MONDAY 06 DECEMBER	9.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. (1hr 30mins)	7030/2 Agriculture Science & Technology 2
TUESDAY 07 DECEMBER	9.00 a.m. 10.45 a.m. (1hr 45mins)	7040/2 Shona 2 7060/2 Ndebele 2 7070/2 Tonga 2 7120/2 Sesotho 2 7080/2 Nambya 2 7110/2 Kalanga 2 7100/2 Xichangana 2 7090/2 Tshivenda 2
WEDNESDAY 08 DECEMBER	9.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. (2hrs)	7020/2 Mathematics 2
THURSDAY 09 DECEMBER	9.00 a.m. – 10.45 a.m. (1hr 45mins)	7010/2 English 2
FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER	9.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. (1hr 30mins)	7050/2 Social Science 2

By A Correspondent- Oliver Mtukudzi’s company, Tuku Music and Promotions, has reportedly been fined $35 000 for failing to submit tax returns to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra).

The late music icon’s company is alleged to have failed to pay income tax returns and value-added tax to Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.

Tuku Music Promotions which is represented by Oliver Mtukudzi’s daughter Samantha Mtukudzi appeared in court recently.

According to reports reaching iHarare, the company is alleged to have failed to submit tax returns from July 2019 to December 2020.

However, fans of the late icon are not so pleased with the fact that Zimra is going after Oliver Mtukudzi’s estate. They called on Zimra to let Oliver Mtukudzi rest in peace.

Here are some of the reactions;stylishdapper

Zimra ndoimwe yakungotsvagawo mari nepasipo. Let the man restchristopher.zw

Shame vanodarirei nhereramashazhusharon

Kuba kuri pachena tax invasion yechii vakadii kizviita arimupenyu nxaa mbavha idzi

Meanwhile, on another note, Samantha recently approached the courts to revise the terms of her elongated divorce wrangle with her retired footballer estranged husband,  Tinashe Nengomasha.

She filed a second application for divorce from her husband

This comes after she initially approached the courts in December 2019 filing for divorce.

According to the amended summons filed before the courts, Samantha said her marriage to Nengomasha has irretrievably broken down to the extent that there are no prospects of restoration since both parties have lost love and affection for each other.

By A Correspondent- Marry Mubaiwa is at a serious risk of having at least one of her arms amputated after failing to get the medical care she needs to treat her lymphoedema, a court heard on Tuesday.

The Harare Magistrates Court was told this as the 40-year-old estranged wife of vice president Constantino Chiwenga asked for the postponement of her trial for allegedly forging a marriage certificate.

Her lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said she was in no condition to stand trial, pointing to heavy medicines she is taking which she said were compromising her mental health.

She said Mubaiwa had been blocked from accessing specialist treatment in South Africa and because of that her condition had continued deteriorating.

“She may end up being amputated because none of the medication she is receiving is working well,” Mtetwa said.

Mtetwa said Mubaiwa – who is also facing a string of other charges including assault, fraud, money laundering and the attempted murder of Chiwenga – underwent a skin grafting procedure three weeks ago to repair tissue damage on her arms.

The trial was scheduled to start before Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube, but it was temporarily torpedoed by Mubaiwa’s application for a postponement.

Justice George Chiweshe of the Supreme Court was lined up to be the first state witness in the fraud and forgery case, but he was excused and told he would be summoned when a new trial date is set.

Mtetwa called a doctor who filed Mubaiwa’s medical report to the witness stand to explain her condition.

Dr Simukai Machawira, a cardiovascular surgeon at Parirenyatwa Hospital, said when the clinical director asked him to see Mubaiwa, she had “impaired lymphatic return which was causing her limbs to swell.”

Muchawira said the former model is currently on six mental variation medication.

She has painful upper limbs, migraine headaches, lower back ache for the past two years and collapses frequently. Mubaiwa also has stiffness on her left hand such that “the fingers no longer open.”

Machawira said the first type of medicine modifies the sensation in her numb hand.

Mtetwa said her research shows that the medicine is used together with other painkillers of a strong kind.

Mubaiwa, according to the doctor, also uses stop pain, migraine pain relievers which also work as antidepressants, sleeping tablets or sedatives, cleanser or detox, and pills that lower her blood pressure.

Her condition causes pain and has to be relieved by the medication.

Machawira said finger deformity is a consequence of capacity gaps in her treatment locally. Mubaiwa’s application to be treated in South Africa was refused by a court, and her legal team blames Chiwenga for interfering with the legal processes.

The doctor said injuries to the nerves were causing Mubaiwa’s limbs to be painful.

Mtetwa asked if the medication rendered her mentally unfit for trial.

“It may alter mental status… but someone who does mental examination may be able to make that determination,” the doctor said.

“A lot of patients are put on medication to control or assist them mentally to cope with pain or stress and as a result they are able to carry their normal day-to-day activities… but I’m not qualified to comment on mental examinations.”

Machawira said when he was talking to her she responded well. He said some patients develop tolerance. He however insisted he could not comment on her mental health, adding: “It’s beyond my expertise to comment on that.”

Prosecutor Michael Reza is challenging the application to delay the trial. Reza said it was “strange” that Mubaiwa, the daughter of former Dynamos chairman Kenny Mubaiwa, was only raising issues of mental health problems now.

“This is a classic case of an afterthought,” Reza said.

Machawira said it was possible she overlooked that and concentrated on her physical injuries.

Reza insisted that Mubaiwa, who is going through an acrimonious divorce from Chiwenga, should have told the doctor about her mental state in the first place.

The prosecutor also said Mubaiwa takes the medication at night which means that when she wakes up she is stable and normal.

Mtetwa, giving her closing submissions, said that one has to be mentally fit in order to stand trial. She said Dr Muchawira’s report did not seek to ascertain her mental state to stand trial, but it does not mean that she is well.

“We pray that you postpone the matter so that she is examined by an expert who will look at her mental health, drugs, dosages she is taking and therefore be able to place before the court whether or not she is in a fit mental state to stand trial,” she pleaded.

Mtetwa said that Chiwenga was the complainant “should not play a role in the cases she is facing”, adding: “Justice must prevail, the trial must commence when she is able to stand it. That is all she is asking for. Fairness.”

The magistrate will make a ruling on Friday.

Mubaiwa is accused of approaching then Judge President George Chiweshe and misrepresenting that she and Chiwenga had agreed to wed under the Marriage Act at a ceremony on July 2, 2019, at their home at 614 Nick Price Drive, Borrowdale Brooke, Harare.

She allegedly submitted copies of national identity documents of both of them to Justice Chiweshe, who then contacted Acting Chief Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi to look for a magistrate to solemnise the marriage.

Mutevedzi, being the highest ranking marriage officer in the judiciary, took up the task personally.

He noticed that the couple had not submitted passport size photos and their addresses, before contacting JSC Acting Secretary Walter Chikwana, who in turn contacted Mubaiwa, who submitted all the missing documents.

Mutevedzi then prepared registration forms and the marriage certificate before the ceremony, but when he went to the Borrowdale Brooke address to solemnise the marriage, he was denied access.

Investigations revealed that an order for two diamond rings had already been placed with a jewellery shop at Newlands, Harare, in preparation for the wedding.

Prosecutors allege that Mubaiwa was trying to force through a marriage without Chiwenga’s consent. Chiwenga was reportedly ill at the time.-ZimLive

By A Correspondent- A handful of Zanu PF’s rented crowds was this morning outsmarted and left singing and chanting at the wrong venue in Zaka.

The few Zanu Pf supporters were chanting and holding placards at a Zaka residence in anticipation of the arrival of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.

However, Chamisa was in no show and was already addressing somewhere.

This was revealed by the Masvingo MDC A Youth Assembly.

Said the MDC Alliance:

WE REMAIN IN CHARGE A handful of rented crowd outnumbered @ Senator Marava’s residence in Zaka. @PoliceZimbabwe and @ZANUPF_Official sings at the wrong venue, the Ppls president @nelsonchamisa is already addressing somewhere. #DECOY ~POLITICAL PRAXIS 101 @mdczimbabwe @daddyhope

https://twitter.com/MdcaYth/status/1448191910745624577?s=20

In a related development, the MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba scoffed at the rented crowds and said vaneta meaning they are tired.

Vaneta! pic.twitter.com/eyAyvytmqi

— Gift Ostallos Siziba (@Cde_Ostallos) October 13, 2021

Yesterday, a convoy leading President Chamisa’s motorcade was attacked by Zanu Pf stalwarts and left severely damaged while several MDC Alliance were also stoned and left nursing injuries.

Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Zanu PF acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa said Chamisa, who is currently undertaking community interface meetings around the country as he mobilises support ahead of the 2023 elections, was entirely to blame.

Zanu PF accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Chamisa of provoking its supporters to attack him and his team by “trying to impose his views and trying to address disinterested Zanu PF supporters”.

It is alleged that the ruling party supporters, who were chanting slogans, were accompanied by the police.

“What I heard happened in Masvingo was that the opposition leader wanted to force himself on an audience which did not want to listen to him,” Chinamasa said.

“He had no right to force people to listen to him. He had a right to address people but only those who were willing to be addressed by him.”

A group of about 200 Zanu PF supporters brandishing placards denouncing Chamisa for the sanctions imposed by the West on the country pounced on the opposition leaders, damaging cars and injuring five opposition supporters.

Zanu PF initially claimed the protest was stage-managed.

But Chinamasa yesterday said the villagers were angered because a “madman” wanted to address them.

“In this case, my information is that the villagers did not want to be addressed by him for obvious reasons. If you listen to a madman, you become part of his cast, you will be portrayed as part of his cast, he will then go ahead and say, I have lots of support, which he does not have.

“So our Zanu PF people have a right to say, we don’t want you to address us, we don’t want to, it’s my right, but if you force me to listen to you, I have reason to be angry.”

Chinamasa did not, however, explain why the police teargassed Chamisa at a private residence, how the villagers acquired the neatly printed placards or what they were doing, uninvited, at MDC Alliance gatherings.

He also claimed that Chamisa and his entourage fired guns into the air to try and scare away Zanu PF supporters.

“I hear the opposition leader and his bodyguards fired shots in the air,” Chinamasa said.

“You know the last time we heard shots in the air was during the liberation struggle, now if there is anything that can agitate people and make them angry, is trying to demonstrate your power through firing a gun.

“You must expect the consequences; you are basically asking people to defend themselves.”

Chinamasa also claimed some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were receiving funding from the West to topple the government and the party will soon be issuing a directive to party supporters to shun them.

“So, we will be writing a directive mentioning the NGOs that are proxies of countries wanting to topple the Zanu PF government,” Chinamasa said.

“We will tell our supporters, don’t have anything to do with those people, don’t associate with those people, they are no good, they are going to bring misery to you.”

Information Ministry secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana and Zanu PF director of information Tafadzwa Mugwadi thanked the people of Masvingo for attacking and blocking Chamisa’s convoy.

They accused the MDC Alliance of stage-managing the attacks in order to draw the attention of the United Nations Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan who is scheduled to visit Zimbabwe to assess the impact of sanctions on the country from October 18 to 28.

“We are in the event of #COP26 and the special rapporteurs’ engagement is about to happen. Do you know what else has started? The Dramas,” Mangwana tweeted. “We are tired of the @mdczimbabwe provocations aimed at setting the agenda and stage for the coming UN Rapporteur on sanctions…,” Mugwadi also tweeted.

Yesterday, the MDC Alliance tweeted:

“Excessive roadblocks have been mounted in Masvingo following the arrival of president Chamisa. Police Zimbabwe are conducting illegal stop and search operations. They say they are looking for weapons.”

In a statement, MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said the arrival of Chamisa in Masvingo province saw ruling party supporters turn the area into a warzone.

“This political violence is unconstitutional; it violates our political rights enshrined in section 67 of the Constitution, and causes extreme concern,” Mahere said. -Newsday

Zanu Pf yesterday applauded own party stalwarts for the violence against opposition MDC Alliance in Masvingo adding that the people who stoned President Chamisa’s convoy and injured several MDC Alliance stalwarts did so within the confines of the law.

Said Zanu Pf in a tweet:

Well done Masvingo villagers

The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law. Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos.

Well done Masvingo villagers‼️

The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law.

Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions.

Villagers were not violent.

Chamisa is not immune from demos. pic.twitter.com/X187HNYSur

— ?? ZANU PF PATRIOTS ?? (@zanupf_patriots) October 12, 2021

More details follow ……

By A Correspondent- Makoni Central constituency legislator, David Tekeshe (MDC Alliance), was awarded six cattle by a traditional leader as compensation after opposition political activists barred him from addressing mourners at a funeral.

Teddy Chipere (44) and Talent Hare (38), both of Vengere, and four other MDC-A activists were recently fined a beast and a goat each by Chief Makoni for chasing away MrTekeshe from the same funeral.

Chief Makoni ruled that it was taboo for strangers to chase away mourners as it was tantamount to accusing Tekeshe of causing the deceased’s death.

Tekeshe was awarded the six beasts, while the six goats were meant for the chief’s court.

The activists have since appealed against the chief’s ruling at the Rusape Civil Court, and the matter is yet to be heard.

Meanwhile, Tekeshe filed a police report against Chipere and Hare for allegedly blocking him from giving graveyard eulogies at a party member’s funeral despite being accorded the opportunity to do so by the deceased’s family members.

The duo appeared before Rusape magistrate Annie Ndiraya last week on Tuesday facing allegations of promoting public violence.

They entered a plea of not guilty and were expected back in court on 12 October for trial.

Public prosecutor, Innocent Mwoyondizvo, told the court that Chipere and Hare denied Tekeshe a chance to address mourners, saying they did not recognise him as a Member of the National Assembly since he was not from their party.

Said Mwonyondizvo:

On January 13, 2021, at Silverbow Cemetery, Chipere and Hare were among other mourners who were burying a fellow party member.

The Member of National Assembly for Makoni Central, Mr David Tekeshe, was given the floor to make a speech and the two accused persons barred him from proceeding.

They argued that they did not recognise him as their representative.

They started chanting a song: “Taramba kupihwa order nemasaskum”, [we won’t be given orders by imbeciles] denigrating him. Other mourners joined them, thereby breaching the peace.

By A Correspondent- Judgement is expected to be delivered on Friday in a matter in which a senior police officer, Inspector Elias Mawomba (47), is accused of conniving with a subordinate to divert for personal benefit, two vehicles carrying smuggled goods.

Insp Mawomba was assigned to escort two vehicles that had been impounded carrying smuggled goods but he allegedly connived with a subordinate and the drivers to offload part of the smuggled goods in a bushy area near the Zinwa water treatment pump.

Insp Mawomba and his subordinate, Assistant Inspector Dickson Siakwimbi, were deployed to Beitbridge to conduct security and anti-smuggling duties at the country’s border with South Africa under operation “No to Cross-border Crimes’’.

They denied the charges of criminal abuse of office and theft when the trial opened before Beitbridge regional magistrate Mr Innocent Bepura.

Judgment is expected on October 15.

Prosecuting, Mr Cloudios Karinga, said on July 18, security forces attached to the same operation with Insp Mawomba intercepted two vehicles that were carrying an assortment of smuggled goods.

The goods included 250 boxes of MAQ washing powder and 57 boxes (of 12 by 400ml) Nivea body lotion creams at Panda Mine security checkpoint some 60km east of Beitbridge town.

The vehicles, a silver Toyota Hiace (AFH 6568) was being driven by Christopher Mashura while the other one, a green Toyota Hiace (ACU 4824) panel van was being driven by Last Muvimi.

Mr Karinga said the vehicles were taken to Beitbridge Police Station.

He said the following day, Insp Mawomba and Asst Insp Siakwimbi were assigned by their commanders to escort the two vehicles to offload the goods at Beitbridge Border Post for evaluation and further customs management.

The court heard that along the way, the two police officers connived with the drivers of the two vehicles to offload part of the smuggled goods in a bushy area near the Zinwa water treatment pump.

They ran out of luck when some members of the public who spotted them informed border security officials. A security team that reacted swiftly found the accused persons and their accomplices still offloading boxes of washing powder and body lotion.

The team discovered that 175 boxes of washing powder and 53 boxes of body lotion had been offloaded from the two cars, which they in turn recovered.

Insp Mawomba was immediately arrested while Siakwimbi disappeared from the scene but was later arrested.-statemedia

By A Correspondent- Zanu Pf has given thumbs up to the violence against opposition MDC Alliance by its own party stalwarts in Masvingo adding that the people who stoned President Nelson Chamisa’s convoy and injured several MDC Alliance stalwarts did so within the confines of the law.

Said Zanu Pf in a tweet:

Well done Masvingo villagers

The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law. Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos.

Well done Masvingo villagers‼️

The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law.

Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions.

Villagers were not violent.

Chamisa is not immune from demos. pic.twitter.com/X187HNYSur

— ?? ZANU PF PATRIOTS ?? (@zanupf_patriots) October 12, 2021

By A Correspondent- Two people have been arrested for kidnapping and robbing passengers along Bulawayo Road.

Christopher Nukarume, 38, and Raymond Dirwai, 43, are reported to have demanded groceries and cellphones from passengers they picked in Kuwadzana.

They also refused to drop them at their respective destinations.

Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest urging people to use buses and commuter omnibuses registered under Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO).

“The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirms the arrest of two suspects in connection with cases of kidnapping and robbery which occurred along Harare-Bulawayo Road near Whitehouse on Friday,” said Ass Comm Nyathi.

“The two suspects who were travelling in a Mazda Bongo vehicle, AET 9775 offered transport to seven complainants in Kuwadzana who were going Granary, Riddleridge Park and Whitecliff.

“Along the way the suspects demanded cash and valuables from the complainants while refusing to drop off the complainants at their respective destinations.

“One of the complainants surrendered a cellphone while the other complainant grabbed the handbrake and the vehicle stopped leading to the arrest of the suspects.

“Police continues to warn people engaging in criminal activities that the law will always catch up with them.

“We are urging people to shun all illegal transport vehicles and rely with transport registered under ZUPCO to avoid loss of lives and robberies associated with these mushikashika,” said Ass Comm Nyathi.

Meanwhile, police have announced names of the three victims of a fatal road traffic accident which occurred at the 8km peg along Roy Buffalo Range on Saturday in which four people died while ten others were injured.

The victims were positively identified as Wilbert Mutusva, 43, of Tsvovani in Chiredzi, Ester Chiromo, 59, of Village 1 in Chiredzi and Revai Machengete, 39, of Gumbo village in Zaka.

Ass Comm Nyathi said police are appealing to the public with missing relatives to visit Masvingo General Hospital mortuary to assist in the identification of one of the male victims.-H-Metro

By A Correspondent | The MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa must invite ZANU PF hardliners into a power sharing convergence, otherwise his movement will fall flat, UK based lawyer, Lloyd Msipa has said.

Msipa, who is a founding member of former minister Nkosana Moyo’s APPA party, said Chamisa must create a model that has a power sharing with former ZANU PF cadres.

As Zimbabwe readies for the 2023 polls, Msipa’s comments come after other G40 members called for the same.

Said Msipa, ” in the absence of a big tent approach that incorporates key former ZANU PF cadres ahead of 2023, the Citizen Convergence model will fall flat on its face.

“Penetrating rural electorate requires unity of purpose across political divide.

“It shouldn’t be so, but that is our reality!”

https://twitter.com/Agrippa98650321/status/1448011970049892364?t=sx4l2VMsBkKtcOooGUfm7g&s=19

https://twitter.com/Agrippa98650321/status/1448011970049892364?t=sx4l2VMsBkKtcOooGUfm7g&s=19

By A Correspondent| MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa’s tour of Masvingo province has never been short of drama with the state and Zanu PF engaging in desperate counter strategies including barricading roads and throwing teargas on his entourage.

Today, Chamisa is in Zaka and Deputy Spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba has reported that heavily armed police officers have already invaded Masvingo Provincial Chairman Senator Misheck Marava’s residence ahead of the youthful politician leader’s visit.

“Zaka District officer in charge Mavhenyengwa and a team of police officers currently at our Provincial Chairman Senator Misheck Marava’s residence. They’re currently interrogating him and are threatening to search his house without a written permission to do so,” said Siziba.

In Masvingo, Chamisa’s vehicle was damaged by Zanu PF thugs who were trying to block him from visiting Charumbira area.

Chamisa has already warned citizens that 2023 elections will likely be bloody due to violence already rearing its ugly head early into the season.

Opposition MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa yesterday urged Zimbabweans to brace for violence that he boldly claims will be propelled by the regime ahead of the 2023 elections.

Addressing journalists at a press discussion organised by TellZim News, Chamisa accused the ruling party of exhibiting violent behaviour ahead of every poll.

He said Zanu PF was tarnishing the name of the country and predicted that the shenanigans that were allegedly exhibited recently were going to persist ahead of the 2023 polls.

“What they did yesterday was primitive things. This is a modern day and what they did tarnishes the name of the country. For us it is almost like an assassination attempt because there could have been loss of lives.

“This shows you that even in the run up to the election, the leopard has not changed its spots. Zanu PF likes to do what they do best, their DNA which is violence especially when they know that they are not winning the election. It does not matter what they do, the writing is on the wall. The people are going to win and they have won,” said Chamisa.

The opposition leader also said all the violence which is being done by alleged Zanu PF youths will not deter their efforts and will not disturb their focus.

“You saw what happened yesterday in terms of the violence, which is an indication that our colleagues in Zanu PF are panicking and desperate. They cannot manage or hold us; this is why they are doing what they are doing. We are not shaken, we are not in any way disturbed but we are determined to go forward and do what has to be done,” said Chamisa.

Contacted for comment, Zanu PF Masvingo Youth League chairperson Godfrey Mukungunugwa scoffed at the accusation saying Chamisa is always in the habit of pointing fingers to his rivals and crying foul.

“That is what he has been doing since 2018 when he lost the election and claimed to have been rigged. Now they are busy circulating a file picture of me handing over food to the elderly and claim that I was bribing youths to attack him. That is what he knows best and we are not moved,” said Mukungunugwa.

This comes in the background of alleged sponsored violence by Zanu PF in Charumbira area where Chamisa’s convoy was attacked and vehicles were damaged by rowdy youths.

Chamisa is on a tour to meet grassroots and community leaders across Masvingo province where he says he will be hearing the citizens’ views and bring communities together.

-Masvingo Mirror

By Jane Mlambo| Opposition politician Abednico Bhebhe’s brother Shadreck Bhebhe has reportedly succumbed to injuries he suffered after he was involved in an accident yesterday.

The former MDC-T Organising Secretary was involved in an accident at a steep sharp curve about 20 kilometres from Bulawayo along the Beitbridge road.

Posting on Facebook, former MDC Green member Discent Bajila said Shadreck failed to make it from the accident.

“Unfortunately, Shadreck Bhebhe, the brother to Abednico Bhebhe did not make it from the accident they were involved in. I have known the two for many years but I never knew they were brothers until today,” said Bajila.

He was with his brother Shadreck and another relative.

According to Bhebhe, the car rolled several times before it landed on a ditch.

“The car fell off the cliff after a vehicle encroached into my lane while I was trying to avoid a head on collision. I am still trying to struggle how we survived the accident,” said Bhebhe.

By A Correspondent- Parents of pupils at Mbembesi Primary School in Insiza, Matabeleland South province, on Saturday demonstrated against the deployment of teachers who do not speak local languages.

The area is dominated by Ndebele, Xhosa, Kalanga, Tonga and Venda speakers.

Villagers, who spoke to NewsDay yesterday, said they had been complaining about the deployment of teachers who were non-conversant with local languages, particularly Ndebele.

Parents said no action had been taken although their children barely understood what they were being taught by teachers who were not competent in local languages.

“Our kids complain that they do not understand anything that is being taught as language has become a barrier,” a villager, Silomuzi Nyoni, said.

“The majority of teachers who work in Mbembesi don’t understand and speak Ndebele. This has created misunderstanding between teachers and parents. Some students do not understand Ndebele or English because they speak languages such as Xhosa, Kalanga, Tonga and Venda,” he added.

Another villager said parents gathered in Sonji village in Insiza district where they sang in protest, telling teachers that they were not happy about their work.

“They also said language barriers were contributing to the decline in Grade 7 and Ordinary Level pass rates in Matabeleland,” a villager said.

Primary and Secondary Education ministry spokesperson Taungana Ndoro said his ministry was yet to receive a report on the demonstrations.

“As for the demonstrations, we haven’t received a report yet, but what we normally recommend is that students at junior level should not have any problems with whether the teacher speaks local languages or not.

“We only make sure that students from Early Childhood Development up to Grade 3 are the ones who should have a teacher who is from the local area and is able to speak their language. Any student from Grade 3 up to secondary level has to adjust to the situation,” Ndoro said.

In 2020, Matabeleland pressure groups complained that the region continued to experience 0% pass rates at schools, and called for government intervention to ensure that all schools across the country’s 10 provinces are equally and adequately resourced.

By A Correspondent- Prominent Kwekwe businessman Thubelihle Kheshow who stabbed 6 people to death during a murderous rage has spoken out following his arrest.

Kheshow, who is the owner of Kheshow Investments in Redcliff, Kwekwe, blamed evil spirits after he killed 6 people and left 4 other people in hospital fighting for their lives.

According to the 26-year-old businessman, he was possessed by some evil spirits when he went on the murderous rampage.

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By Court Reporter | In a historic case, the Supreme Court Of Zimbabwe has ruled over the abuse of women involving the late Nigerian preacher, TB Joshua, that the investigation on his mentee, Walter Magaya must go ahead.

TB Joshua was in 2016 recorded while trying to subvert the court of justice on one of the Magaya victims in the verified-case of Zimbabwean woman, Angela Charakupa, and in Nigeria he himself had up to the time of his death, piles of children and older women who are complainants against him.

A long list of other women are complainants in cases reported on ZimEye since the unexplained sudden death of one of Magaya’s girlfriends in 2014, Chipo Chakanyuka. Following the latest three cases, Walter Magaya had taken the Gender Commission Of Zimbabwe to the Supreme Court.

On the 23rd August 2019, the Commission issued General Notice 1444 of 2019 on Walter Magaya which it published in the Government Gazette. The General Notice authorized the respondent to conduct an investigation into complaints of sexual abuse generally made against the appellant.

In response, on 3 September 2019, Magaya filed an application with the High Court for a review of the decision by the respondent to launch the investigation pursuant to the General Notice. He followed this up with an urgent chamber application in which he sought by way of interim relief an interdict against the conduct of the investigation by the respondent.

On 22 October 2019, the High Court dismissed the urgent chamber application with costs.

Magaya then appealed to the Supreme Court against that judgment.

He contended that he had good prospects of succeeding on the review and that his rights from the review process would be rendered nugatory if the investigations were not halted pending the review. His stance was that neither the Constitution nor the Act afforded the Commission the authority to conduct the contemplated investigation. To that extent, any investigation by the Commission constituted an illegality. He contended further that what the Commission intended from the published notice was outside its statutory mandate and as a result, Magaya was entitled to the protection of the law which he was seeking from the court.

But ruling against him, Supreme Court justices, Gowora, Patel and Uchena stated as follows:

I have read the lead judgment of my learned sister Gowora JA and consider it necessary to briefly analyse and address the nature of the relief sought by the appellant in the proceedings a quo.

            As regards this aspect, Gowora JA quite correctly observes that in the review application the principal relief sought is that the decision of the Commission in issuing the General Notice be set aside. Again, the provisional order sought in the urgent chamber application simply prays for the intended investigation of the appellant by the Commission in terms of the General Notice to be stayed. It is only in the final order sought that the appellant prays that the General Notice be declared null and void and of no force or effect. Consequently, my learned sister concludes that the appellant cannot seek to police lawful conduct through an interdict, given that the validity of the General Notice, which is presumed to be valid until it is set aside, has yet to be determined. In keeping with the case authorities cited and relied upon by Gowora JA, I fully agree that an interdict cannot ordinarily be granted against conduct that is prima facie lawful.

            Regrettably for the appellant, he has tactically miscalculated the nature of the relief that he sought in the urgent chamber application before the court a quo. He has also failed to correlate and align the draft order in the chamber application with the relief sought in the application for review pending before the High Court.

            In the final analysis, the applicant has failed to take into account the formidable hurdle presented by the rule that an interdict cannot in principle be granted against conduct that is prima facie lawful and carried out in terms of an extant statutory instrument that is presumed to be valid until it is duly set aside by a competent court that is properly seized with the question of its validity. In any case, as a matter of procedural correctness, the validity of the impugned General Notice could not properly have been an issue before the court a quo until the return day had arrived. By the same token, it cannot be properly ventilated before and determined by this Court on appeal against the judgment a quo. For these essentially technical reasons, I would agree with Gowora JA that the present appeal should not be allowed.     

Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition notes with concern and unreservedly condemns the political violence which took place in Masvingo Province on October 11, 2021. 

About 200 Zanu PF placard-waving supporters from Masvingo violently confronted opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa on his way to a meeting. His aides were injured and treated at a local hospital. 

 Later on, Chamisa and his team were teargased by riot police while they were holding a private meeting in Masvingo town.

These sad events symbolize high levels of intolerance on the part of the ruling party, Zanu PF which has a history of using violence to crush dissenting voices.

In May 2021, the ruling party ignored our calls to reprimand its supporters who had vowed to unleash violence against Chamisa (during the unveiling of the Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare)

We note with concern the fact that Zanu PF continues to use violence and coercion as means to cling to power. Events currently unfolding expose the determination by Zanu PF to decimate the opposition through unorthodox means while creating an uneven playing ground ahead of the 2023 elections.

The Coalition is deeply concerned over the partisan nature of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), which, according to witnesses and video evidence, stood by and watched as Zanu PF supporters blocked Chamisa’s motorcade. The teargasing and disruption of a private meeting by the police speaks volumes on the partisan conduct of the police force.

The third issue is the abuse of state media. Attempts to downplay gross injustice and state-terror on civilians and other parties through the state media are a cause for concern. We insist that the media, as the Fourth Estate, ought to be non-partisan, fair and balanced.

Yesterdays’ events also go against President Mnangagwa’s claim of ‘a new dispensation’. 

If anything, the current administration has a tainted human rights record which has been characterized by closure of the democratic space, arbitrary arrests through weaponization of the law, abductions, torture and murder and introduction of draconian laws that seek to entrench authoritarian rule among many other atrocities since 1980.

Following the November 2017 military coup that led to the ascendancy of President Mnangagwa to power, the country was plunged into a constitutional crisis and what followed was militarization of key state institutions.

We do hereby raise the flag, once again to the SADC and the AU, that present day Zimbabwe is in serious risk of conflict. This brutal closure of political space raises fears of violence and clampdown on the civic and opposition actors of the 2023 polls.

The most worrying indicator is that President Mnangagwa internationally plays the “growth, and reform” narrative whilst domestically pursuing a one-party state agenda. Various recommendations on upholding peace and democracy from the SADC, including former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe have been ignored.

Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition reiterates its call for genuine dialogue facilitated by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as a means to unlock the country’s multi faceted crisis.

By A Correspondent | The MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa must invite ZANU PF hardliners into a power sharing convergence, otherwise his movement will fall flat, UK based lawyer, Lloyd Msipa has said.

Msipa, who is a founding member of former minister Nkosana Moyo’s APPA party, said Chamisa must create a model that has a power sharing with former ZANU PF cadres.

As Zimbabwe readies for the 2023 polls, Msipa’s comments come after other G40 members called for the same. Said Msipa, ” in the absence of a big tent approach that incorporates key former ZANU PF cadres ahead of 2023, the Citizen Convergence model will fall flat on its face.

“Penetrating rural electorate requires unity of purpose across political divide.

“It shouldn’t be so, but that is our reality!”

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By A Correspondent- Co-Chairperson of the British All-Party Parliamentary Group for Zimbabwe Lord Oates has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to condemn the violence against political opponent MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa adding that political violence in all forms should not be tolerated.

His comment comes after Zanu Pf stalwarts are celebrating violence against president Chamisa’s convoy in Masvingo yesterday.

He said:

Deeply worrying to hear of the attack on opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa’s convoy. Important that @ZANUPF_Official & @edmnangagwa condemn such violence unreservedly & that @PoliceZimbabwe bring perpetrators to book. Political violence wherever it comes from should be condemned

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Opposition MDC Alliance has said Masvingo has become a warzone after the aides of Nelson Chamisa, the party’s leader were viciously attacked by an alleged ZANU PF mob on Monday. 

The party’s national spokesperson, advocate Fadzayi Mahere said the assailants were mobilised by ZANU PF provincial chair for Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira in a bid to block Chamisa who has commenced his provincial tour. Said Mahere in a statement following attacks on party stalwarts in Masvingo, (Monday):

MASVINGO PROVINCE DESCENDS INTO WARZONE AS PRESIDENT CHAMISA COMMENCES PROVINCIAL TOUR

President Chamisa is currently embarking on a community citizens’ conversation interface in various provinces in line with our Agenda 2021. The tour commenced On Monday with engagements and interface meetings in Masvingo Province.

Following President Chamisa’s arrival in the province, the area has turned into a warzone. Yesterday, hundreds of ZANU PF thugs stoned cars, barricaded roads with burning logs & assaulted 5 members of our team who were badly injured, hospitalized and later discharged.

When approached by our members, drunken youths said that they had been sent by “Chadzamira”. Ezra Chadzamira of ZANU PF is currently the Provincial Minister of Masvingo. They held printed placards with ZANU PF slogans, hate speech against President Chamisa as well as “anti-sanctions” messages. Cars were seen ferrying the rented crowd and coordinating the attacks as violent thugs held up printed posters. The police watched and took no action even though they had earlier disrupted and shut down a private meeting of less than 20 people at the home of one of our provincial members. We condemn this selective application of the law.

This morning, Masvingo turned into a warzone with excessive, military-controlled roadblocks including in Chivi, Mwenezi and Urazvi manned by riot police and soldiers sprouting up on village access roads. Our members were subjected to illegal searches as riot police officers indicated that they were searching for “weapons”. Two trucks of riot police descended on Urazvi as President Chamisa arrived in the area.

The entrance to the homestead of one of our provincial members was blockaded by riot police. No explanation was given for the illegal and unusual police-controlled roadblock at the doorstep of a citizen. There have been threats of violence and killings against villagers throughout the province who have been warned not to attend meetings convened by the MDC Alliance. State agents are conducting unlawful surveillance and tracking of our members.

This political violence is unconstitutional (it violates our political rights enshrined in section 67) and cause for extreme concern. It is a clear act of desperation by a bankrupt, illegitimate regime that has failed to govern and now resorts to force and coercion against citizens.

We condemn the continued shrinking of the democratic space and the treatment of the MDC Alliance as a banned organization by the State.

What is beyond doubt is that ZANU PF is terrified of the unstoppable groundswell of citizen support for President Chamisa & the broad alliance forming in every village and every town to win Zimbabwe for change.

Despite the harassment and intimidation, President Chamisa and the MDC Alliance are continuing with the tour which will see the President engage citizens, civic leaders & special interest groups as we strengthen the broad alliance to win Zimbabwe for change. What is central for us is to champion the cause of the Zimbabwean people who face grave economic difficulties, depleted wages, a rising cost of living, a broken education system, dilapidated infrastructure, extreme poverty and a public health system that is on its knees.

Fadzayi Mahere National Spokesperson
Change That Delivers

By A Correspondent- Zanu Pf has given thumbs up to the violence against opposition MDC Alliance by its own party stalwarts in Masvingo adding that the people who stoned President Nelson Chamisa’s convoy and injured several MDC Alliance stalwarts did so within the confines of the law.

Said Zanu Pf in a tweet:

Well done Masvingo villagers

The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law. Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions. Villagers were not violent. Chamisa is not immune from demos.

Well done Masvingo villagers‼️

The villagers who demonstrated against @nelsonchamisa in Masvingo did so within the confines of law.

Chamisa represents a violent organization which called for sanctions.

Villagers were not violent.

Chamisa is not immune from demos. pic.twitter.com/X187HNYSur

— ?? ZANU PF PATRIOTS ?? (@zanupf_patriots) October 12, 2021

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa to denounce barbarism in his party…

President Chamisa’s convoy was attacked by Zanu PF hooligans in Charumbira area, Masvingo on Monday.

The MDC Alliance leader also challenged State security agents to desist from suppressing the alternative voice.

“BARBARIC & DESPERATE..Mr ED STOP this violence.

STOP this abuse of the police &the state to persecute & disrupt the opposition.

STOP dividing people and destroying this beautiful country.

STOP buying and paying some who pretend to be opposition.We & the CHANGE WAVE are unstoppable,” President Chamisa posted on Twitter.

Abednico Bhebhe involved in a car accident. The MDC stalwart briefly told ZimEye he is currently hospitalised at Mater Dei Hospital, Bulawayo. "Am in Materdei Hospital car accident, can't talk over the phone" he said.

More details to follow…

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) October 12, 2021

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa to denounce barbarism in his party…

President Chamisa’s convoy was attacked by Zanu PF hooligans in Charumbira area, Masvingo on Monday.

The MDC Alliance leader also challenged State security agents to desist from suppressing the alternative voice.

“BARBARIC & DESPERATE..Mr ED STOP this violence.

STOP this abuse of the police &the state to persecute & disrupt the opposition.

STOP dividing people and destroying this beautiful country.

STOP buying and paying some who pretend to be opposition.We & the CHANGE WAVE are unstoppable,” President Chamisa posted on Twitter.

By A Correspondent- Sudden Hleketere, a Police officer at Chachacha Business Centre in Shurugwi lost his four months old baby girl Ruvimbo Hleketere yesterday morning when the bedroom in which she was sleeping caught fire.

It is suspected that the bedroom was set ablaze by the baby’s four-year-old sibling who was playing with a match stick and lit a candle. The curtain caught fire and it spread throughout the room.

The fire had engulfed the whole room by the time the four-year-old alerted the mother, Portia Mtambalika who was in the adjacent kitchen.

Midlands Police Spokesperson Emmanuel Mahoko said he was yet to receive the report.

Hleketere said he is devastated by the death of his daughter and wants to know how the fire broke out.

“I am at a loss of words. I do not know why my daughter had to die or how the fire began and destroyed everything,” said Hleketere.

He lost all property including a bed, wadrobe, clothes, television set, kitchen unity, table and blankets.

Ruvimbo was buried at Zvamabande River yesterday.

By A Correspondent- The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a robbery case in which a Bulawayo man was robbed of cash, a cellphone and gold.

In a statement, the police said the victim was lured by the suspect, who is still at large, to buy the gold from Shamva.

Said the police:

On 11/10/21 a Byo man (36) lost US$60, Huawei 27 cellphone and 65 grammes of gold through robbery in Chegutu.

The victim had been lured to Shamva by suspect, Anyway Munjeyi who is still at large to buy gold before he teamed up with two other accomplices to attack him in Chegutu on his way home to Byo. Investigations are underway.

Gold buyers and or sellers have been targets of armed robbers who either pounce on them at their bases or lure them to sell or buy the precious metal.

Robbers have also been using the same strategies to steal cattle, cars and other properties.

By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC Alliance has said Masvingo has become a warzone after the aides of Nelson Chamisa, the party’s leader were viciously attacked by an alleged ZANU PF mob on Monday. 

The party’s national spokesperson, advocate Fadzayi Mahere said the assailants were mobilised by ZANU PF provincial chair for Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira in a bid to block Chamisa who has commenced his provincial tour. Pindula News presents Mahere’s statement that is in response to the Monday attack.

MASVINGO PROVINCE DESCENDS INTO WARZONE AS PRESIDENT CHAMISA COMMENCES PROVINCIAL TOUR

President Chamisa is currently embarking on a community citizens’ conversation interface in various provinces in line with our Agenda 2021. The tour commenced On Monday with engagements and interface meetings in Masvingo Province.

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Following President Chamisa’s arrival in the province, the area has turned into a warzone. Yesterday, hundreds of ZANU PF thugs stoned cars, barricaded roads with burning logs & assaulted 5 members of our team who were badly injured, hospitalized and later discharged. When approached by our members, drunken youths said that they had been sent by “Chadzamira”. Ezra Chadzamira of ZANU PF is currently the Provincial Minister of Masvingo. They held printed placards with ZANU PF slogans, hate speech against President Chamisa as well as “anti-sanctions” messages. Cars were seen ferrying the rented crowd and coordinating the attacks as violent thugs held up printed posters. The police watched and took no action even though they had earlier disrupted and shut down a private meeting of less than 20 people at the home of one of our provincial members. We condemn this selective application of the law.

This morning, Masvingo turned into a warzone with excessive, military-controlled roadblocks including in Chivi, Mwenezi and Urazvi manned by riot police and soldiers sprouting up on village access roads. Our members were subjected to illegal searches as riot police officers indicated that they were searching for “weapons”. Two trucks of riot police descended on Urazvi as President Chamisa arrived in the area.

The entrance to the homestead of one of our provincial members was blockaded by riot police. No explanation was given for the illegal and unusual police-controlled roadblock at the doorstep of a citizen. There have been threats of violence and killings against villagers throughout the province who have been warned not to attend meetings convened by the MDC Alliance. State agents are conducting unlawful surveillance and tracking of our members. This political violence is unconstitutional (it violates our political rights enshrined in section 67) and cause for extreme concern. It is a clear act of desperation by a bankrupt, illegitimate regime that has failed to govern and now resorts to force and coercion against citizens. We condemn the continued shrinking of the democratic space and the treatment of the MDC Alliance as a banned organization by the State.

What is beyond doubt is that ZANU PF is terrified of the unstoppable groundswell of citizen support for President Chamisa & the broad alliance forming in every village and every town to win Zimbabwe for change.

Despite the harassment and intimidation, President Chamisa and the MDC Alliance are continuing with the tour which will see the President engage citizens, civic leaders & special interest groups as we strengthen the broad alliance to win Zimbabwe for change. What is central for us is to champion the cause of the Zimbabwean people who face grave economic difficulties, depleted wages, a rising cost of living, a broken education system, dilapidated infrastructure, extreme poverty and a public health system that is on its knees.

Fadzayi Mahere National Spokesperson
Change That Delivers